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A. FILM SEES INTERESTING SIGHTS FROM
PEEP-HOLE IN BLACK BOX
Miss E. M. Barnes,' a Movie Fan, Examining a Film as It is Shown
Ready to Be Placed ifr the -Projecting Machine at a Motion Picture Show-House.
Editor's Note. This Is'the first of
three stories giving the hlstory-of
the motion picture film. The next
reel of this feature will tell what hap
pens to the film in the laboratory
BY A. FILM
I am a motion picture film. I am
17-16 inches wide and 1,000 feet
long. The first things that happens
to me at a motion picture studio is
that I am cut into 400-foot lengths.
Each length is rolled into a tight lit
tle reel and each reel is inserted in
a tin can, which is then hermetically
sealed.
Then I go in my'400-foot segments
to the Camera man. Each camera
man takes a segment of me into a
dark room, lifts me out of the little
can and ,puts me into a funny look
ing box with a crank on it
Then the camera man carries me
outside, funny box and all, to the
studio where I am to work. The box
is set up on three legs and after a
while the director says, "Camera!"
The camera man begins to turn the
crank and I begin to run from one
reel to another. I go over some
spools and things, passing in front
of a little round glass, where I get a
fleeting glimpse of all the funny
things the actors and actresses are
doing. But the crank sends me
along sd fast that I don't get time
to see very much. I clatter along at
the rate of 16 exposures per second,
which does not allow much time for
observation. It takes two turns 6f,
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